Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-17
GOSSIP.

White furniture is the latest upholstered
fad"
Soft felt hats are coming once more in
fashion.
The President has been limited to two
cigars day.
This is the fiftieth year of the reign of
Queen Victoria.
Speaker Carlisle and wife will go to
Europe next month.
TO remove stains from character, inherit
a fortune of a million dollars.
The tax collection in Hancock county
under the Dow law amounted to $s,043.20.
They're all wearing brown coats"
''Who?"
"Chestnuts.'
-Greenville wants spanking machine for
the giddy girls of that town who fiirt with
actors and travelling men.
PATHS receipts for seven performances
in Mexico were $4,000. Ten performances
of Sarah Bernhardt paid $4,000.
North Carolina has the only colored So
licitor and prosecuting attorney in the United
States, and oddly enough he is White.
The Postmaster General has arranged
for fast mail train between New York and
Kansas City, which will save twelve hours
time.
During the past two years nearly $4,000
Jews have landed in New York, driven from
their homes by relentless religion and poll
tical persecution.
The colored people of Columbus, O.,
held jollifcation meeting Friday night over
the removal of the ''black laws" from the
statutes of the State.
Up to December IA, 1856, there had been
granted to women by the United States, let
ters patent for one thousand nine hundred
and thirty five inventions.
Sam Jones began his sermon in the city
of Robert G.. Ingersoll's home by remarking
that ''infdelity is only great big mouth
that goes around talking"
-"It's water we went; not BEAR" sang the
Salvation Army in front of Down East
saloon, and the accommodating barkeepel
TUNED the hose on them.
In quarrel over the location of the
County seat of Wichita county, Kansas, two
men were killed, four fatally wounded and
others less seriously injured.
The new State Department at Washing
ton has $50 rooms, and cost $5,000,O00. The
new War Department has 173 rooms, ant
cost s., 100000. The building has 412 win
dows.
1t is startling and ominous fact that o.
the entire population of the United States
one in every 837 is in prison. And the wors
of it is, there are many more out who shoult
be in.
| Natural gas, it is asserted, was used il
China long ago in the mechanic arts, beinI
conveyed from natural wells in bambo,
pipes and consumed by the aid of terra cott
burners.
There is at Rochester, N. Y, a little CIR
who has two tongues. She is between thre,
and four years old, and her two tongues d,
not interfere with one another when she eat
or speaks.
Mrs. Cleveland will take advantage o
Lenten leisure and quiet to pursue her Frenc
studies with assiduity. She has engaged
Washington professor and is taking dali
lessons of him.
Rufus Hatch and syndicate of Ameri
can capitalists, have purchased tract of 60
OO0,0 900 acres of land in Texas. This ittl
farm is larger than some of the province
and kingdoms of Europe.
How can Mrs. Smith wear such
handsome velvet coat?' My dear chile
don't you know her husband used to pay a
his money to doctors, but since he took
using DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup he gives it a
to her to spend.
Astronomers predict the appearance c
the "Star of Bethlehem" again this year, fc
the sixth time since the birth of Christ. Thi
star is said to appear directly north of tn
north star, and to be visible, in its dazzlin
light, at MONDAY.
"A syndicate of colored men from Ne,
England have offered Virginia farmer sc
an acre for his land, which contains nun
Der of sulphur and chalybeate springs, an
propose to establish Saratogafor the color
ed people of the world.
Some Eastern paper says that youn
ladies should not bother children so muc
into the stale request, ':come and kiss me.
That's right. They should ask older persons
young men for instance, to accommodate
them. They would gladly do it.
There is movement on foot in Illinoi
to have the school books used in that Stat
printed in the penitentiary. This schem
may work all right in Illinois, but it woul
be an utter failure in Ohio, for the reaso
that there are no printers in the penitentiary
l-EG.
i "A New Jersey man has disinherited hi
own family and 5equeathed 900 to Henr
George. Mr.. George gracefully accepts tn
fortune, land and all, and will now be prett
comfortably fixed. A short time ago b
regarded the possession of $50, ,OOOby sing
person as crime. But times change an
men change with them.
The "prettiest girl" in the employ of til
Government is said to be typewriter in th
| Office of Commodore Walker the Chief of tb